Re: Coding for the future

Avoid embedding code specific details in comments. Init loop counter in R7 to 5 A comment should not name anything explicitly stated in the instruction. 'R7' in the comment is not merely redundant. If the loop register needs to be changed later on, then the comment will have to be updated

Re: Coding for the future

Can't say I ever participated, but I've heard the strategy of writing only comments, then gathering a group of folks in a room to review the 'code'. Participants don't need to know the underlying language, or any language for that matter. It sounds exciting. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern

Re: How to compare parameters in one z/Os with parameters in another z/OS

Like Ed, I recently questioned the availability of automatic JES2 parm back-generation. Seems that I had catapulted a long-standing requirement into a fait accompli. Does not exist, sadly. JES2 is especially complicated, as others have noted, because a change edited into the init deck will not

Re: ISPF startup processing

Now with some content. At one time ISPF-L was in the hands of Leonard Woren. Something indeed has gone wrong. I saw Leonard at SHARE in San Jose--along with his wife!!! Sounds like a job for Super Tom. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE

Re: ISPF startup processing

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Re: MVS command display

command display *** EXTERNAL EMAIL - Use caution when opening links or attachments *** On 5/25/2021 3:43 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > SDSF uses extended consoles to manage command output. A given console and be > active on only one system at a time. If you have a MAS, output from a c

Re: MVS command display

SDSF uses extended consoles to manage command output. A given console and be active on only one system at a time. If you have a MAS, output from a command issued on one member may well appear on another system. If you have only one member in your SDSDF plex, then never mind. Otherwise: 1.

Re: Pronunciations (spun off of another thread)

As if this topic were not tangled enough, it's complicated by U.S. dialect differences. ROOT In some locales, this word rhymes with 'boot', in others it rhymes with 'foot'. Many people can use both pronunciations interchangeably. ROUT This word in all dialects rhymes with 'scout'. Little

Re: And the survey says...

I can't promise that Vista has all the functions discussed in this thread, but in the years that I've used it, I've seen Tom add a lot of new variations. I suggest that curious cats spend a few minutes exploring the 'Paste Functions' enumerated under the Edit menu. Several of those were

Re: And the survey says...

I've used only Vista since the day long ago when Tom asked me to try out this new app he had written. Even though Attachmate remains the corporate standard (with no input from actual mainframe users). I've seen IBMers giving classes and demos using Vista. Interestingly, Tom himself always had

Re: Printing GTF trace?

Widening the perspective. Versatile IPCS is used to analyze all sorts of dumps--SVC, standalone, SYSM--as well as GTF trace, which can be for hardware or software or both. So why is it so little used outside of the 'system programming' inner sanctum? At my one and only GUIDE conference in 1980,

Re: IBMLINK URL

The initial URL works for me. https://www.ibm.com/ibmlink . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Print a SYSMDUMP

I take the same approach to SYSMDUMP and to SYSABEND: tell people not to direct them to sysout. If you find one, trash it. Be prepared to fight this up the food chain. Make sure you have allies in the right places. It could get nasty. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company

Re: ICHPWX01 password exit source circa 1993

I once worked with a shop that had a similar exit--similar intent anyway--in order to guide a user into following password rules. There are inherent problems with such an exit. First is the difficulty of writing directly to a 3270 screen from a RACF exit. Regular mainframe maintenance has a way

Re: jes2 spool

One more option to consider. We have run VPS for years. When COVID hit, no one could go into their normal office--where VPS printers are located. Users asked us (infrastructure) if there was any way to get a windows viewable copy of certain reports. Turns out VPS has such a feature. Not too

Re: a Way to stop receiving Post email from my Yahoo email.

Send this note to For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Note that this is not the 'regular' address for posting. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team

Re: SMP/E and Isolating a CSECT within a load module

r: > ENTRY whatever > or > ORDER whatever > ??? > I had a co-worker who supplied an exhaustive ORDER mentioning every > CSECT, knowing that his code would not be tested in-house with every > permutation (N!) that SMP/E might create. > >> On 21/01/2021 20:54, Jesse 1

Re: (External):Re: TWS replacements

We converted from another product to TWS some years ago. It was a massive and lengthy effort just to arrive at a point similar to where we left. I don't know how much we saved on the s/w, but it provided an awful lot of employment. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company

Re: SMP/E and Isolating a CSECT within a load module

IBM/SMPE is quite meticulous about supplying all necessary binder control statements via JCLIN. Any omission leads to a PE and concomitant HOLD data. I don't think there's an inherent problem with multiple entry points as long as a binder control statement specifies the one to use. The ancient

Re: Isolating a CSECT within a load module

Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > ... > As long as the program was compiled and linked in the same run, the > END statement picked up BANKAPP as entry point and everything was > cool. But when run separately, the entry point was indeterminate, so link > failed. > Source of course was n

Re: Isolating a CSECT within a load module

(I know it's not Friday, but time these days is twisted beyond recognition) I used to work for a bank. One Monday morning, we were told that we needed to provide a disaster recovery platform for another bank with whom we had a mutual support agreement. ASAP. Which was totally news to us.

Re: TSO XMIT and no member list

The messages issued during TSO TRANSMIT are actually coming from IEBCOPY. By custom in most shops, DD SYSPRINT is commonly allocated to the terminal, i.e. TERM=TS in the logon proc. To bury these messages, allocate SYSPRINT to dummy or to a throwaway sysout class. Don't forget to reallocate

Re: z/OS holddata per https?

or attachments *** On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 22:07:04 +, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: >I can confirm that HTTPS replaces FTP for downloads very nicely. Our use of >FTP depends on a gizmo (Bluecoat) that cannot understand FTPS. We made the >switch to HTTPS some time ago. > How? It

Re: z/OS holddata per https?

I can confirm that HTTPS replaces FTP for downloads very nicely. Our use of FTP depends on a gizmo (Bluecoat) that cannot understand FTPS. We made the switch to HTTPS some time ago. Uploading doc (dumps, etc) is also problematic, but IBM has not pulled the plug yet on FTP. Nonetheless we also

Re: Message IEF302A

will use the default writer name to write the data set. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ieam800/gg302a.htm So, it would seem the correct response is R xx,D to use the default writer. Joe On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 12:50 PM Jesse 1 Robinson wrote

Message IEF302A

We've had a couple of instances recently of message IEF302A: jobname WTR WAITING TO START FOR JOBID We sort of interpreted it as an ENQ conflict, except that there are no actual data sets involved. It seems to revolve around a job calling for a particular WTR, very unusual

Re: TSO timeout S622

I don't actually see evidence of timeout, which should generate at least one S322 abend message. 622 is I/O error, which can result from any number of 'unconditional logoff' events. Consider CANCEL from an unexpected source. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric

Re: TS7720 to EMC DLM migration

The migration was complex enough that we engaged a separate third party ISV to guide us through. This was going from a combination of virtual (STK) and physical tape 100% DLm. Allow several months. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE

Re: Build and submit proc

The overlooked link in evolution. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of

Test post

I have not received any post since Thursday. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office <= NEW robin...@sce.com

Re: CA Broadcom Replacement Software

I don't mean to sound like a salesman, there are a few pluses for TPX that I have not seen mentioned. -- Sometimes a person has a unique userid or password on one app. For example, I have a userid and password on a CICS region that is different from my TSO credentials. TPX can map *your*

Re: CA Broadcom Replacement Software

I want to disagree that multiple emulator sessions--even the best, and you all know what that is--substitutes for a proper external session manager. Even as a simple minded MVS sysprog, I have dozens of LPARs to deal with between prod and DR. I have 'only' TSO, SMCS, and OMEGAstuff to deal

Re: does anyone recall any details about MVS/XA?

Reliance on 24 bit addressing is a hallmark of the Bill Gates school of capacity projection. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -Original

Re: does anyone recall any details about MVS/XA?

We have downloaded ServerPac for years entirely from the network. No need for tape. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -Original Message-

Re: Extraneous blanks in SDSF issued command

Wow. I had forgotten about Paste-by-typing! IIRC Tom created that function years ago at my request to handle some long since abandoned IBM problem management app. Until now I never had a reason to revisit the function. In my estimation, most of Vista's special copy/paste functions cannot be

Re: Extraneous blanks in SDSF issued command

I considered the effect of trailing blanks and had my colleague check for nulls or blanks in ISPF Option 0. General Input field pad . . N Command delimiter . ; Even after changing from blank to null, his SDSF fill character appeared to be blank. . . J.O.Skip Robinson

Re: Extraneous blanks in SDSF issued command

e ===> SL SET,A=SVCD,ID=SKIP,C=522,J=CSSW?L01,JL=(CSSW?L01,OPERTUNE,DB e e ===> 04MSTR),SDATA=(RGN,CSA,TRT),END e e e I just kept typing and the text wrapped to the second line. BTW, the command worked. Regards, David On 2020-11-29 12:52, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > 2) m

Re: Extraneous blanks in SDSF issued command

for 4 blanks. If (3) doesn't work, it's SR time. UIs shouldn't play games with your text. >On 2020-11-29 12:23, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: >> We were instructed by a vendor to set a two line SLIP trap for a >> problem affecting their product. My colleague used the SDSF command &g

Re: Extraneous blanks in SDSF issued command

RTUNE," and continue the command by Replying to the next WTOR. Regards, David On 2020-11-29 12:23, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > We were instructed by a vendor to set a two line SLIP trap for a > problem affecting their product. My colleague used the SDSF command > facility (/+) t

Extraneous blanks in SDSF issued command

We were instructed by a vendor to set a two line SLIP trap for a problem affecting their product. My colleague used the SDSF command facility (/+) to enter the command. Working together, we could not get it to work because trailing blanks on the first line were passed to MVS, breaking the

Re: Running same stc in a LPAR

An example of duplicate STCs is 'INIT'. No action is required to run an unlimited number of initiators. As someone else pointed out, a particular STC may and often does prohibit duplicates in its own code, but that is not an MVS limitation. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison

Re: IEA213A DUPLICATE VOLUME

Your DASD managers are the culprits. As I said in another post, this condition could persist for quite some time until an attempt to vary a duplicate volser online or to IPL. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager

Re: IEA213A DUPLICATE VOLUME

I believe that this behavior is as old as OS/VS. I don't understand the logic except that it follows the principle that all connected devices are to be brought online unless specifically excluded in the (nowadays) IODF. It's all a bit counter intuitive considering that what *we* want is a

Re: IEA213A DUPLICATE VOLUME

Note that the prohibition against duplicate volsers affects only *online* volumes. It does not apply to volumes that simply happen to be physically/logically connected. If a volume is CLIPped to a volser matching one already online, there is no error posted at that time. This condition can last

Re: Is there a JES2 command to submit a job?

Skinning a cat is certainly an idiom. Like most idioms, its origin is obscure or even controversial--not so much the idea, but the history of the phrase. I Googled it and delighted in the variations. For one, "There's more than one way to skin a cat means there are many ways to do something,

Re: Is there a JES2 command to submit a job?

There are apparently several ways to skin a cat. Are they documented anywhere? Aside from the question of why do it, I've always wondered if the cat cares... . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile

Re: Has anyone integrated Rexx with IKJPARS?

No argument. Still, it's hard to beat the flexibility of TSO/CLIST parameter handling. I wrote a TSO command once partly for kicks. Really complicated. Pointers to pointers to pointers. When it was done, it was super easy to use. Sigh. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company

Re: Has anyone integrated Rexx with IKJPARS?

Oops. I meant ' TSO/CLIST capabilities'. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2020 11:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: Has anyone integrated Rexx with IKJPARS? *** EXTERNAL EMAIL

Re: Has anyone integrated Rexx with IKJPARS?

CLIST has pretty much the same parsing capabilities as TSO. I think that's natural as both types of command processors were developed on the same platform. REXX OTOH was imported to MVS from elsewhere--VM? I miss those TSO/REXX capabilities. I once encountered a 'REXX preamble' that provided

Re: Is there a JES2 command to submit a job?

You're right about the cyclical refresh of auto commands. Without some kind of intervention, JES2 auto commands with T= will expire at midnight. So we schedule an auto command for midnight to reinstate all auto commands. The process is remarkably resilient. I recall only a handful of failures

Re: Is there a JES2 command to submit a job?

We use a similar process. The supplied RDR proc is a bit clumsy with stuff coded that would work as is for pretty much no one. So like many other shops, ages ago we wrote our own version with customized data set and unit parameters. The big problem with an RDR-like solution is that the default

Re: SADUMP IPL tape

Years ago we eliminated tape from the SADUMP process altogether. Also eliminated operator intervention. For each LPAR, we have a LOAD (IPL) profile that points to a DASD volume containing SAD IPL text. The SAD parameters run the dump to DASD without prompting the operator at all. When the dump

JES2 message $HASP375 Estimate exceeded

We've had some cases of a job taking over the spool. In researching a solution, we've noticed that message $HASP375 varies in ways we don't understand. Doc for the message looks like this: >--jobname--ESTIMATE EXCEEDED BY--nnn--+-LINES--+--->

Re: Can a non-admin restrict others from viewing one of their own MVS data sets?

If your shop does not already do this, consider a global rule that allows the *owner* of a data set full access control. The following 'rule' allows just that. CLASS NAME - GLOBAL DATASET MEMBER CLASS NAME -- -

Re: JES2 Policies

In a previous life at the late great Security Pacific, we an *elaborate* scheme based on account numbers. Even the job name was generated from account number. To control all this, we had a VSAM file containing all valid account numbers along with indications of who could submit jobs with each

Re: VSAM-RLS and DFSMStvs basic questions

We were ESP for TVS back in the day. The product held a lot of promise for (I would say) larger shops who had to do VSAM updates during a limited batch window. The problem to solve was recovering from some kind of failure. From the dawn of time, the logic was to back up everything in sight

Re: Generic name for PDS/PDSE

Radoslaw, I would be happy to have you as my teacher. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: SMF to capture user login history

I had that problem in a shop long ago. In defense of the 'perpetrators', if a user got caught by timeout chopper, getting back on could be long and difficult. The real culprit was lousy tuning and inadequate resources. The resource problem eventually got solved by an upgrade. No users were

Re: INTRDR and submitted JobID

IBM demurred for years allowing system symbols to be used in batch JCL. There were several spirited discussions at SHARE as to how they should work. Some possibilities: -- Substitute values at submit time -- Substitute values at conversion time -- Substitute values at execution time These

Re: ISPF dsn sort

This is one of those IIRC posts. I think this behavior goes back decades. The reason is as Kolusu states. Moreover--IIRC--the very appearance of the 'progress bar' was in response to what could be a long delay. Delay to the point that the user might suspect that the process was hung outright. I

Re: BCPII services

To the main question, would there be a problem with starting BCPii at any time, I would say no problem. In our early experience with sysplex, we restarted BCPii any number of times before we got it right. If the task is missing something it needs, it will tell you so. You will need some HMC

Re: IBM splitting into two companies

Heard it on the news this morning. It's pumped up IBM stock. No idea what it means for us on the ground. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com

Re: How to Refresh System REXX Libraries

I'm not well versed in system Rexx, but our setup has the main AXR proc pointing to an installation library via a member in PARMLIB: REXXLIB ADD DSN(xxx) The idea is that local Rexx code lives in the local library so that it can be updated without having to restart AXR. . . J.O.Skip

Re: IEASYS problem

SYS1.SAMPLIB(SPPINST) Is the member that provides code to install the SYSPARM dialog. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -Original Message-

Re: IEASYS problem

If you can't figure this out fairly soon, I suggest installing SYSPARM, which is found in SYS1.SAMPLIB. I made big use of this when we first started using system symbolics in a big way. It was discussed briefly in a SHARE Virtual session. I think it was Peter Relson who pointed out that it does

Re: Caution: "Hacked" email caused the distribution of a potentially harmful attachment

The idea of deliberately dumbing down language in spam is preposterous. First of all I don't understand the purported logic of it. More important, while English is an official language in Nigeria, it is no one's mother tongue. It's learned, mostly in school, to whatever proficiency the learner

Re: Caution: "Hacked" email caused the distribution of a potentially harmful attachment

This sort of hack seems to have increased during the C-19 pandemic because people who are staying home a lot order more and more stuff online, making phony 'acknowledgments' harder to catch. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS

Is there a word for that?

This is a question about categorizing JES2 commands. At one time, when we were still buckling our knickerbockers above the knee, many/most JES2 configuration definitions could be modified only by some kind of restart ranging from hot start to warm start to cold start. Some years ago JES2

Re: MEPL showing the latest PTF

For my money, the quickest and most reliable way to find the 'latest PTF' of a load module is to use the PDS command or its progeny StarTool. Select the member you want to query in its load library. For example, we're currently working on module AMAPDUPL In MIGLIB. Use the 'HISTORY' subcommand:

Re: How get a user to use his own catalog rather than master?

Maybe I need a make-up class at Saturday morning vocab class. Then again maybe it's a distinction without a difference. Here's why you do *not* want to over-grant update access to the master catalog. -- For the average user, there should be some user catalog pointed to by an alias in mcat.

Re: MEPL showing the latest PTF

It's common for IBM to release multiple fixing PTFs for a single APAR, where the PTFs address essentially the same problem/function in multiple releases. This is often the case when two or more PTFs are close in numerical sequence. The best answer is found in IBM ServiceLink function SIS,

Re: How get a user to use his own catalog rather than master?

I have never considered giving a single user his own ucat. You can create multiple ucats according to function. But like users should point to the same ucat. If you have a product that creates thousands of data sets for its own purposes, you might consider creating a ucat just for that product.

Re: Ransoming a mainframe disk farm

expect. > > Now I assume that ransomware, or a disgruntled employee, could know > enough about a site to overwrite all "tapes" in the VTS, including any > remote cloud objects - unless there's a way to make those remote files > write-once. Don't know yet. > > On 9/4/202

Re: Ransoming a mainframe disk farm

that VTL to another site. So, when some files got encrypted via ransomware, they were able to quickly replicate the files back and re-boot. Joe On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 1:51 PM Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > It’s Friday, so don’t rag on me for venturing into IT fiction. No one > has

Re: Ransoming a mainframe disk farm

from CD > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson > Sent: Friday, September 04, 2020 11:51 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Ransoming a mainframe disk farm > > It’s Friday, so don’t rag on me for v

Ransoming a mainframe disk farm

It’s Friday, so don’t rag on me for venturing into IT fiction. No one has hit us with this challenge (yet), but it could happen. Ransomware is much in the news these days. As unlikely as it might be, some nefarious genius manages to lock you out of your entire disk farm and demands rubies and

Re: Architectural Level Sets

It's almost Friday. Back in the day when IBM had competitors in the hardware game, I worked at TRW Credit Data, ancestor of Experian. We had an Amdahl something-or-other. I was a baby sysprog at the time, so some details are fuzzy. A new iteration of MVS arrived that was designed *not* to run

Re: Architectural Level Sets

Instructions come and--believe it or not--instructions go. I once read some doc on a newly introduced instruction. Don't remember the timeframe or the exact instruction, but it came with this interesting comment. This instruction, being new, will not cause a problem for existing code unless

Re: MVS modify command capture

I understood Gil to be asking how I'm sure that I have all the data. DS QD,ONLINE is going after a large but finite amount of data. There are only so many online DASD volumes at any moment, and the number does not fluctuate from one run to the next. I can repeatedly issue DS QD,ONLINE and

Re: MVS modify command capture

I've never seen the need to code any delay beyond what Ed has written. I have a CONSOLE routine that does a DS QD for all the DASD volumes in the shop. It just keeps cranking until all results are in. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE

Re: ISPW v4 on z/OS 2.3

I'm not the primary ISPW guy, but it appears that we are running V4 on z/OS 2.3. During init, we get this message: WCT81004C V4.0F . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW

Re: How to un-duplex a logstream?

The question of policy naming is crucial to a number of sysplex problems discussed here over the years. Failure to use a new name for a new policy can lead to all kinds of SNAFUs. When we went to parallel sysplex 25 years ago, we settled on a practice of *always* using a name different from the

Re: Anyone Using MVS Bulk Data Transfer (File-to-File)?

We considered using BDT many moons ago. NDM was the hands-down winner. However, BDT still appear to be supported. Still required for JES3 SNA, I believe. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.e0za100/e0za10007.htm . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California

Re: How to determine which SMP CSI is used

I've got an itch for one of those trendy hotel jobs. Do they ask for any qualifications more than screwing up SMP? I thought it would be a lot harder. - . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile

Re: Reminder: Don't "Forget" Your CFRMPOL Keywords

I'm also a bit puzzled by the situation Ed describes. We've run parallel sysplexes since the mid-90s. We have had two widely spaced CEC failures that took down all data LPARs plus ICFs on the failing CEC. (In both cases we had a second CEC that housed backup ICF LPARs.) In neither case was

Re: Remember the 9370?

At one shop, before we moved to cartridge, we had 3420s that were so 'obsolete' that spare parts became prohibitively expensive. On more than one occasion, our loyal CE team carved replacement parts out of wood (!) to extend the lifespan of decrepit drives. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern

Re: ISPF development question

Getting in to TEST mode has been discussed. The easiest way is going to Option 7. That turns TEST most on without requiring you exit/re-enter ISPF. In TEST mode, ISPF elements are reread from DASD on each call. This is not very efficient for ordinary usage but greatly facilitates dialog

Re: Keeping TSO users our of CICS

] on behalf of Jesse 1 Robinson [jesse1.robin...@sce.com] Sent: Monday, July 27, 2020 6:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Keeping TSO users our of CICS This is not a 'RACF problem'. The problem lies with product that manages logins using RACF. Whipper snappers believe

Re: Keeping TSO users our of CICS

This is not a 'RACF problem'. The problem lies with product that manages logins using RACF. Whipper snappers believe it or not, once upon a time TSO itself had this problem. The task gets a wait from RACF, but that task is running in the mainline of the top guy. The proper way to handle this is

Re: Keeping TSO users our of CICS

I think we're asking the wrong question. These folk just make an ordinary fat fingered typo now and then. If that happens on TSO, the user is hung up but the system runs along fine. Apparently in CICS, the whole shebang goes into a wait. I've seen this for other non-CICS products. . .

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

When I was a kid a hundred years ago, the canonical term was 'centigrade', based I assumed on the 100 degree span between the freezing and boiling points of water. The term was logical and fit into a world view that included metric measurements and decimal currency. And who the heck was Celsius

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

Or not... https://www.npr.org/2013/01/14/169140590/-the-whole-nine-yards-of-what . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -Original Message- From:

Re: Transport of choice for sending data to IBM's ECuRep

Can I ask why you guys are (apparently) so averse to the PDUU/HTTPS solution? . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: Transport of choice for sending data to IBM's ECuRep

IBM has been threatening to disallow plain FTP for several years. We cannot use FTPS here because of an appliance (Bluecoat) that we rely on to punch through the internet firewall. Bluecoat does not understand FTPS syntax. Eventually IBM offered HTTPS as an FTP alternative, which we're fine

Re: Two Processors and One IODF

online to the SDMs (right? getting fuzzy > on it). Currently we use HUR (love it), but I don't believe it would work > with non-unique addresses either. > > First Horizon Bank > Mainframe Technical Support > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: Two Processors and One IODF

and One IODF CAUTION EXTERNAL EMAIL Ours is simply a DR site so currently we don’t have that requirement. On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 11:27 AM Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > We mirror with XRC, which I believe is Global Mirror. (I cannot keep > the current lingo straight.) In my shop, we have a bu

Re: Two Processors and One IODF

We mirror with XRC, which I believe is Global Mirror. (I cannot keep the current lingo straight.) In my shop, we have a business need to put any device--DASD or tape--online to any LPAR regardless of location. In order to do that, device addresses *must* be unique. If you have absolutely no

Re: Two Processors and One IODF

To move an IODF from one system to another, there are various methods as others have suggested. We have always used an HCD native process that 1. creates an offload copy of the source IODF 2. submits a second job to transmit the unload to the target site 3. runs the second job at the target

Re: HCD graphics report format

HCM provides a very usable pictorial view of an IODF. No graphics software required. We now use HCM exclusively for IO config management. You get way more than a picture. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager

Re: Confirm or deny existence of old masking password?

This is guesswork. If you allow lowercase passwords, the ubiquitous uppercase translation from password entry to RACF verification is bypassed. I would look at system option 5.1 in the RACF dialog. Look for a statement like this: MIXED CASE PASSWORD SUPPORT IS NOT IN EFFECT This option

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